One of the many nice features about Google is how a person can leave digital footprints across the web. Use these simple steps to find out where a person might be mentioned in a website, on a message board, on Myspace, etc.
1Go to Google.
2In the search box, type in the person's full name with quotation marks around it, for example: "John Smith".
3Hit the search button. Since you have put quotation marks around the person's name, Google will bring back all results where both the first and last name were found exactly as you typed it in the search box.
4Browse results for information related to the person you are searching for.
5Check out other "people search" sites now available, that allow you to input email names, or user names, and receive similar results.
- The more common the name, the more information you will find about unrelated people. For common names, try putting something specific into the search by typing a word outside of the quotation marks. For example, to look up information about John Smith a resident of Portland, Oregon, type: "John Smith" Portland, Oregon. Note how the location does not have quotation marks around it.